The role of health literacy in intervention studies targeting children living with overweight or obesity and their parents-a systematic mixed methods review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Excess weight and obesity are increasing among children. Health literacy has been suggested as a feasible concept for enabling informed health choices in weight management interventions for children and their parents. Knowledge of the skills necessary for a child to maintain new health behaviors is limited and the role of health literacy remains unclear. Thus, there is a need to summarize the effects of and experiences with interventions that include health literacy components to guide the development of effective, future weight-related interventions.

Aim

This review aims to identify how health literacy is integrated into studies of interventions targeting children with excess weight or obesity and/or their parents and to appraise the identified literature.

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SUBMITTER: Holmen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11794496 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature